And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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When I brake the five loaves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? They say unto him, Twelve.
Mark
Gospels / MarkTherefore shall ye abide at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation day and night seven days, and keep the charge of the LORD, that ye die not: for so I am commanded.
Leviticus
Law / MosesI will praise thee: for thou hast heard me, and art become my salvation.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersPass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the isle.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahIf thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name, THE LORD THY GOD;
Deuteronomy
LawThey shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahYet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
Proverbs
WisdomI call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd the LORD said unto Joshua, Fear them not: for I have delivered them into thine hand; there shall not a man of them stand before thee.
Joshua
HistoryAnd it shall come to pass, that the nation and kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation will I punish, saith the LORD, with the sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name: him they compelled to bear his cross.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewWe hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.
Psalms
PoetryHe shall break also the images of Beth-shemesh, that is in the land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods of the Egyptians shall he burn with fire.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd after certain years he went down to Ahab to Samaria. And Ahab killed sheep and oxen for him in abundance, and for the people that he had with him, and persuaded him to go up with him to Ramoth-gilead.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd the land had rest forty years. And Othniel the son of Kenaz died.
Judges
HistoryFor ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesThese were the renowned of the congregation, princes of the tribes of their fathers, heads of thousands in Israel.
Numbers
LawAnd it came to pass a long time after that the LORD had given rest unto Israel from all their enemies round about, that Joshua waxed old and stricken in age.
Joshua
HistoryAnd it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd the gates of the city shall be after the names of the tribes of Israel: three gates northward; one gate of Reuben, one gate of Judah, one gate of Levi.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThe LORD shall reign for ever, even thy God, O Zion, unto all generations. Praise ye the LORD.
Psalms
PoetryHis scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.
Job
Wisdom / JobFor the seller shall not return to that which is sold, although they were yet alive: for the vision is touching the whole multitude thereof, which shall not return; neither shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life.